Google Street View drive-by prompts man to lose 100 pounds

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Perhaps you’re one of the lucky beautiful people in the audience who has never seen a photo of himself, wondered who the disgusting lardo is and then — with a horrifying rush of realization — suddenly understood that he was seeing himself as he appeared to others in all his corporeal corpulence.

If so, I envy you… and so does Bob Mewse. Bob was accidentally captured in a Google Street View drive-by last year, and when he saw himself, he was mortified by what he saw. In fact, he was so disgusted by his appearance that he immediately undertook a massive lifestyle change, put himself on a strict diet and exercise regimen, and proceeded to lose over 100 pounds in the course of the next 12 months.

According to Mewse:

I was horrified when I saw that photo. I was massive. My belly was sticking out and I looked huge. I’d been thinking about losing weight for some time but after seeing that picture, I knew that I actually had to do something about it. I was in such bad condition that I was unable to walk and talk at the same time. My blood pressure was sky-high and I was getting back problems due to the excess weight I was carrying around.

Google Street View has been getting a lot of criticism lately for the threats some think it poses to privacy, but here’s one example, at least, of Street View radically changing a person’s life for the better. Congratulations, Bob, you’re a better man than I am: seeing my own Google Street View picture just prompted a shrug and the consumption of another belly-inflating beer.